Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Circulation magazine – a Chat with King Features Syndicate, Inc.

"The circulation of CIRCULATION MAGAZINE - subtitled: 'A Magazine for Newspaper-Makers' - is just 5,000 copies an issue. Because it is sent to every newspaper executive in the country, and to hundreds of advertising agencies and national advertisers, it is registered as third class mail. If you miss your copy write to us, and we'll mail one to your home." - Circulation Chat editorial, in #4, Sep 1921.

[2] King Features sold journalistic productions of all kinds, and notably comic strips in black-and-white and full-colour.

For most readers of YESTERDAY'S PAPERS this is just a first glimpse of CIRCULATION magazine, a promotional paper published at irregular intervals from 1921 to 1927 by King Features Syndicate, Inc. in New York City, NY. My present estimate is that at least 29 issues were published. The earliest I saw is from 1921, the latest from 1927.

BUT UP TO NOW JUST 15 NUMBERS HAVE RESURFACED (11 full issues, plus from 3 issues only the covers, and from 1 issue only the interior).

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Cartoonist, illustrator, storyteller, born in Nelson, B.C. in May 1950, has contributed to Chronicle, Weirdom, and Visions fanzines. John illustrated ‘Ronald and the Dragon’ by Lawrie Peters in 1975. Email: adcock34@gmail.com